Greenberg Charles J
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, PO Box 208014, New Haven, CT, 06850-8014, USA.
Biomed Digit Libr. 2005 Apr 13;2(1):3. doi: 10.1186/1742-5581-2-3.
Alternative models of subsidizing scholarly publishing and dissemination have germinated and gathered momentum in the fertile soil of dissatisfaction. Like the stubborn spring dandelion that needs but a small crack in the sidewalk to flower boldly, the first flowers of Open Access in library literature, including Biomedical Digital Libraries, have sensed their opportunity to change the existing paradigm of giving away our scholarship and intellectual property, only to buy it back for the privilege of knowing it can be read. Will biomedical digital library and informatics researchers understand their role in a new era of Open Access simply by desiring an immediate uninhibited global audience and recognizing the necessity of open access peer-reviewed literature to become self-sufficient?
在不满的沃土中，资助学术出版和传播的替代模式已经萌芽并蓬勃发展。就像顽强的春日蒲公英，只需人行道上一条小裂缝就能大胆绽放一样，图书馆文献（包括生物医学数字图书馆）中的开放获取的首批成果，已经察觉到改变现有学术成果和知识产权赠送模式的机会，即先赠送，之后又为了能阅读而买回。生物医学数字图书馆和信息学研究人员是否仅通过渴望立即拥有不受限制的全球读者群体，并认识到开放获取的同行评审文献实现自给自足的必要性，就能理解他们在开放获取新时代中的角色呢？
